the rounded sides very slightly tapered on one end to the curved channeled spout, the interior and exterior covered with a rich sea-green glaze, the countersunk base with an unglazed ring burnt orange during firing, wood stand (2). 

Provenance: Yamanaka & Co. Ltd., Kobe, 5th July 1950.

New York Private Collection, acquired from the above, and thence by descent.

Note:  Compare two closely related examples from the National Palace Museum Collection, exhibited in Green: Longquan Celadon of the Ming Dynasty, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2009, cat. nos 2 and 3. Another example is published in Sherman E. Lee and Wai-kam Ho, Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368), Cleveland, 1968, cat. no. 61. A similar example, formerly in the Edward T. Chow Collection, was sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 16th December 1980, lot 301.

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, New York, 17 march 2021